“Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself”
Franklin D. Roosevelt First Inaugural Address
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amNpxQANk0M

It seems to me that everybody is afraid of climate change even those who do not believe it is happening!

Scientists are worried that we will not take any meaningful action in time to prevent radical changes to the earth's climate.

Ordinary people are scared that they will lose access to all sorts of modern conveniences such as electricity and cars.

Economists believe that reducing greenhouse emissions will either wreck the economy now, or if we don't act, it will be even more expensive to deal with in the future.

Environmentalists believe that climate change will cause mass extinctions, possibly including us.

Fossil fuel companies are scared, that they will have to leave most of their reserves in the ground, potentially missing out on trillions of dollars of income.

The politicians are simply scared to do anything which might upset anybody.

The result is various groups pushing vast amounts of misinformation, with a total disregard for future generations, but yet we have a range of solutions available to us. We rarely do need to stop the fear mongering and recognise the problem and deal with it but are we smart enough?

warmair,

Unfortunately the "...various groups pushing vast amounts of misinformation..." is where we're at.

We can't move along in any meaningful way while "funded" denialist spin seeks to stymie acceptance and action.

While people make vast fortunes from "business as usual", they are willing to fund the misinformation - all they need is to sow the the seed of doubt and the ability to invoke conspiracy and they have "skeptics" in their tens of thousands eating out of their hands and further disseminating the junk.

It seems to me that it's only the actual experience of extreme conditions occurring more frequently (as is becoming apparent in weather anomalies worldwide) associated "climate change" that will alter the playing field

Poirot,
the only reason that there are 'tens of thousands' of sceptics, like me, is because AGW has not been proven and because:-

A. The AGW advocates became 'alarmists'

B. Exaggerated claims that have not come to pass.

C. The so called scientists were found to be fiddling the data

D. Some of the info put out by the IPCC was found to be unfounded.

E. The UK met Bureau and the IPCC both now recognize that there has been no global warming for the last sixteen years, dispite record amounts of carbon being released.

Time the alarmists found another cause. Mother nature will do as she wants with our climate if and when she likes.

The only people in any fear are the elites, who can't understand how they let the peasants get to have it so good. Some of them are probably worried that such worthless hordes are accessing material comforts intended only for those elites.

Hell, how can they feel superior, when even checkout chicks own cars? This was never meant to happen. Someone deserves a good thrashing for not stopping it.

Perhaps some of their useful idiots, the greenies, are worried, because they are stupid enough to fall for the spin. Even most greenies, [watermelons, red on the inside] are not worried, they see the fraud as a good way to put those peasants back down where they belong, in a mud hut.

You are right about one thing, hundreds of millions are being skimmed off the scam. Just look at Obama's mates, with grants of tax payer funds up to half a billion. Now that's a scam.

Some academics are worried. 16 years of no heating, & less storms. Hell the funding might dry up if this continues. What was it? $80 billion in global warming research funding, & still no actual evidence found. God knows, it's even getting harder to stop the truth from being published.

The gentry in pommy land are doing OK too. Hundreds of millions in rental for windmill sites. Of course this is only as it should be, It's only the peasants paying through their power bill, & the peasants are supposed to pay well for their aristocracy. Can't let them get too well off, they're likely to get uppity don't you know.

Now I've done my bit, so as you appear to know all about it, please direct me to the source of all this oil industry funding for us skeptics. They appear to have trouble getting the funding into my bank account.

For every scientist that says Global Warming happening you can find another that says it is false.

One truth is the scientists who provided evidence about it were discredited by the data being provided FALSE.

Also Al Gore and a small number of people will end up making billions of dollars.

Corrected

One truth is the scientists who provided evidence about it were discredited by the data being proven FALSE.